Three
species of Anthemis have been naturalised in
Tasmania. They are all strongly aromatic herbs with finely
divided leaves. In A. tinctoria (yellow chamomile)
the ligulate flowers are yellow. The other two species, A.
cotula (stinking mayweed) and A. arvensis (corn
chamomile) have white ligulate flowers, but differ mainly in
that A. arvensis is only weakly aromatic, but A.
cotula is fetid smelling.
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